Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer